ON THIS DAY
Born in 1890
821 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
politician, army officer
- Agatha Christie
autobiographer, poet
- Charles de Gaulle
military officer, memoirist
- Ho Chi Minh
journalist, writer
- H. P. Lovecraft
writer, poet
- Harland Sanders
writer, restaurateur
- Groucho Marx
film actor, actor
- Vyacheslav Molotov
politician, diplomat
- Michael Collins
military officer, politician
- Robert Ley
writer, chemist
- Friedrich Paulus
military officer, general field marshal
- Stan Laurel
stunt performer, comedian
- Rose Kennedy
socialite
- Alfred Jodl
politician, military personnel
- Egon Schiele
lithographer, painter
- Boris Pasternak
pianist, novelist
- Man Ray
printmaker, jewelry designer
- Fritz Lang
screenwriter, filmmaker
- Robert Stroud
zoologist, ornithologist
- Maria Goretti
girl, agricultural worker
- Elsa Schiaparelli
businessperson, jewelry designer
- Frank Morgan
musician, film actor
- Vannevar Bush
engineer, computer scientist
- George II of Greece
monarch
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan
freedom fighter, politician
- Rachele Guidi
restaurateur
- Ronald Fisher
astronomer, statistician
- Alma Richards
science teacher, farmworker
- Idris I of Libya
politician
- Karel Čapek
photographer, illustrator
- Aimee Semple McPherson
evangelist, writer
- Eddie Rickenbacker
racing automobile driver, businessperson
- Jelly Roll Morton
bandleader, conductor
- Elpidio Quirino
lawyer, politician
- Jean Rhys
novelist, writer
- Duke Kahanamoku
swimmer, water polo player
- Stanley Holloway
singer, comedian
- Walther Funk
journalist, banker
- Casey Stengel
baseball manager, baseball player
- Carlos Gardel
composer, singer-songwriter
- Fanny Kaplan
terrorist, politician
- Adolphe Menjou
film actor, stage actor
- Marjorie Main
stage actor, film actor
- Herbert Marshall
stage actor, film actor
- Harry Hopkins
non-fiction writer, politician
- Kurt Student
Generaloberst, author
- Verna Felton
musician, film actor
- Victor Lustig
confidence trickster, con artist
- Karl Patterson Schmidt
herpetologist, zoologist
- Prince Joachim of Prussia
military officer
- Harold Bride
sailor
- Norman Bethune
physician, stretcher bearer
- Cecil Kellaway
stage actor, screenwriter
- El Lissitzky
typographer, type designer
- Milunka Savić
soldier, military personnel
- Kurt Zadek Lewin
psychologist, economist
- William Lawrence Bragg
chemist, physicist
- Vasily Blyukher
politician, military officer
- Fred M. Vinson
lawyer, politician
- Edward Arnold
autobiographer, trade unionist
- Paul Whiteman
conductor, radio personality
- Franz Werfel
poet, librettist
- Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia
writer, aristocrat
- Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
military commander, politician
- Andriy Melnyk
military officer, politician
- Katherine Anne Porter
writer, journalist
- Viktor Lutze
soldier, politician
- Giorgio Morandi
painter, architectural drafter
- Dion Fortune
mystic, occultist
- Alan L. Hart
physician, novelist
- Robert Ripley
illustrator, comics artist
- Maurice Duplessis
lawyer, politician
- Anthony Fokker
visual artist, aerospace engineer
- Victor Serge
revolutionary, anarchist
- Matome Ugaki
kamikaze, military personnel
- Max Immelmann
aircraft pilot, military officer
- Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger
politician, undersecretary
- Duff Cooper
writer, politician
- Jeanne Eagels
film actor, actor
- Bohuslav Martinů
librettist, draftsperson
- Edwin Howard Armstrong
inventor, electrical engineer
- Frank Murphy
legal counselor, captain
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
environmentalist, journalist
- Gopinath Bordoloi
freedom fighter, politician
- Hans-Valentin Hube
Generaloberst, military personnel
- Eduard Dietl
Generaloberst, soldier
- Robert Armstrong
film actor, actor
- Charles Edison
businessperson, entrepreneur
- Stewart Menzies
intelligence officer
- Kurt Tucholsky
poet, satirist
- Fawzi al-Qawuqji
military personnel, politician
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
suffragist, activist
- Charlotte Greenwood
stage actor, musician
- William Dudley Pelley
politician, screenwriter
- Hermann Joseph Muller
biophysicist, zoologist
- Frank Forde
diplomat, politician
- Henry Hull
film actor
- William O'Dwyer
diplomat, jurist
- Adolfo Ruiz Cortines
military personnel, politician
- Buck Jones
film actor, actor
- Grigory Kulik
military personnel, politician
- Soong Ai-ling
politician
- Mortimer Wheeler
prehistorian, archaeologist
- Ferruccio Parri
politician, journalist
- Leslie Banks
film actor, stage actor
- Ho Ying-chin
politician, military personnel
- Habibullāh Kalakāni
politician
- W. Lee O'Daniel
radio personality, governor
- Seiichi Itō
aircraft pilot, military personnel
- Princess Dagmar of Denmark
aristocrat
- Clarence Brown
film producer, manufacturer
- Edward Elmer Smith
novelist, science fiction writer
- Bruno Tesch
chemist, Holocaust perpetrator
- Paul Strand
cinematographer, film director
- Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson
writer, entrepreneur
- Agnes Macphail
politician, farmer
- Harry Pollitt
communist, politician
- Victoria Ocampo
essayist, patron of the arts
- Maurice Podoloff
businessperson, jurist
- Daniel J. Callaghan
military officer
- Karl Harrer
sports journalist, politician
- Claro M. Recto
writer, lawyer
- Grigory Semyonov
politician, military personnel
- Herman Lamm
military personnel
- Bechara El Khoury
politician, lawyer
- Richmal Crompton
humorist, children's writer
- Beniamino Gigli
stage actor, film actor
- Grim Natwick
film director, animator
- Edmund Lowe
actor, film actor
- Karl Freund
film director, screenwriter
- Marriner Stoddard Eccles
banker, economist
- Ahmad Kasravi
historian, jurist
- Alfredo Ottaviani
canon law jurist, Catholic priest
- Myra Hess
music educator, pianist
- Solomon Mikhoels
director, pedagogue
- Edgar Kennedy
film actor, comedian
- Georgy Pyatakov
statesperson, politician
- Yoshio Tachibana
military personnel
- Etta McDaniel
actor, film actor
- Walter Weiß
military personnel, Generaloberst
- Yoshitsugu Saitō
military personnel
- Moša Pijade
politician, journalist
- Nikolai Trubetzkoy
historian, university teacher
- Walter Krüger
soldier, military officer
- Christopher Morley
essayist, novelist
- Naum Gabo
photographer, architect
- Charles Erwin Wilson
politician, engineer
- Adolf Wagner
military officer, politician
- Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia
aristocrat, abbess